{"id":11363,"date":"2023-09-22T20:41:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T20:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11363"},"modified":"2023-09-22T20:41:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T20:41:59","slug":"newsweek-profiles-minnesota-urban-debate-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2023\/09\/22\/newsweek-profiles-minnesota-urban-debate-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek Profiles Minnesota Urban Debate League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-22-at-3.25.35-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11364 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-22-at-3.25.35-PM-300x59.png\" alt=\"Red Newsweek logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"59\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-22-at-3.25.35-PM-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-22-at-3.25.35-PM.png 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Newsweek covered the Minnesota Urban Debate League\u2019s 11th annual Mayors Challenge event in Minneapolis this week. The coverage is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/hubs\/mightier\"><span class=\"s2\">Mightier<\/span><\/a>, a partnership with the National Association of Urban Debate Leagues to illustrate the ways in which debate strengthens the skills young people need to promote civil discourse in a multicultural democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Mayors Challenge is an annual event at which exceptional high school debaters show off their skills and engage with local and state political leaders before a crowd of supporters. MNUDL, a program of Augsburg University, provides resources and programming to support competitive academic debate for more than 1,000 students at 40 partner schools in the Twin Cities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAfter the event, Abdihafid Mohamed was glowing,\u201d wrote reporter Lauren Giella. \u201cNot only did he feel the adrenaline rush of speaking in front of 200 people, but he also achieved his goal of meeting new people and making connections. Even though his side lost the debate, he said he felt like a &#8220;famous celebrity.&#8221; He was overwhelmed with people congratulating him on a job well done and exchanging cards, emails and LinkedIns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe highlight of the program, he said, was talking face to face with Mayor Frey. Sharing the stage with Frey, Attorney General Ellison, the governor and the first lady made Mohamed feel like he could one day be a leader in his community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201c&#8221;Being part of this [MNUDL], seeing them all, means that we&#8217;re not far from each other,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I have the opportunity and possibility to be in their shoes.&#8221;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/hubs\/mightier\/minnesota-urban-debate-league-mnudl-mayors-challenge-fundraiser-event\">Read the full article from Newsweek: \u201cMinneapolis Mayor Inspired By &#8216;Intellectual Battle&#8217; At Debate Fundraiser\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek covered the Minnesota Urban Debate League\u2019s 11th annual Mayors Challenge event in Minneapolis this week. The coverage is part of Mightier, a partnership with the National Association of Urban Debate Leagues to illustrate the ways in which debate strengthens the skills young people need to promote civil discourse in a multicultural democracy. The Mayors &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3265,3266,4024],"class_list":["post-11363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-minnesota-urban-debate-league","tag-mnudl","tag-newsweek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11366,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11363\/revisions\/11366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}